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prolepsis
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It is in Jordan's proleptic moment that we discern a glimmer of haunting questions that have largely structured historical research and debates about the liaison, even when such questions have not been posed straightforwardly.
Of course, already there is a proleptic experience of this community.
It is no more valid to judge Gravity's Rainbow on the accuracy of its predictions than it is to rate Orwell on how close he came to describing the real 1984, but from the perspective of the present there are a number of startlingly proleptic moments in there.
 
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